San Francisco police at Ingleside station recovered 114 bicycles, 80 bicycle tires and a bicycle frame at a home in S.F. and two storage units in Oakland last week.

Police don’t know which cities the bikes came from. Some of the bikes have already had people come forward and claim them based on photos, said Officer Carlos Manfredi, a spokesman for San Francisco police.

For each of the bikes (or bike frames) recovered through these photos, more remain that never wheel their way back home — and the sting of a stolen bike doesn’t fade over the years, either.

Bay Bikers blog contributor and Chronicle Politics Editor Michael Collier has had four of his bikes stolen over the years — each time after providing the would-be thieves with golden opportunities to ride away on his wheels.

The first one, his beloved yellow Mercian that he acquired when he was a skinny kid of 15 years old, was fetched in 1988 after Collier left his automatic garage door open all night. Next was his Eisentraut “Rainbow Trout” model with the fish decal on the head tube — another victim of the open garage door.

After that, Collier turned to mountain bikes, which met similar fates. His Gary Fisher Hoo Koo E Koo was left unlocked on his car’s roof rack while he strolled with a friend at the Berkeley Marina. Gone. The last one was his aluminum Trek road bike, which he left in his station wagon but forgot to lock the tailgate.

None of the bikes was recovered. The only time Collier thwarted a theft was when he happened upon a teenager pedaling his son’s BMX bike a few blocks from the Collier casa and demanded its return.

Collier appears to have learned his lesson: Keep the bike secured at all times. He has held onto his bikes for the past 15 years.